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Quarter of Italians edging the poverty line and most youngsters survive thanks to Mon and Dad
One out of four Italians up to 40 years of age survive with the help of their parents, according to a report on “Youth and the crisis” released this week in Milan. Another report from the Italian national statistics institute (ISTAT) says millions of Italians have or are close to falling below the poverty line. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI worked one or two weeks at a time with one week off in an internationally recognised photo-electronics plant making telecommunications switches handling 9 MILLION phone calls simultaneously for one of my clients over a period of three years, based in Caserta, near Naples, Italy.
May 22nd, 2013 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lovely, lovely people whose work ethic was much laid back to say the least. Overruns to schedule for the production of ‘my’ switches were a constant problem. But the biggest problem was the fact that anything I needed from America, especially UNIX based computer equipment had to be agreed not only with the Plant Director but also with the Head Gardener and I kid you not.
He was the local representative of the Mafia and nothing, but nothing, moved on local transport into the plant without his ‘permission’, based on how many Euros the goods were worth. After fulfilment of ‘my’ contract (MANY millions of Euros) I left them never to return.
It was taken over by an American company who really did not know what they were getting into and they closed the place within three years.
That was Southern Italy for you.
Another triumph for austerity in Euroland...
May 22nd, 2013 - 10:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/22/quarter-of-italians-edging-the-poverty-line-and-most-youngsters-survive-thanks-to-mon-and-dad#comment249163: Which UNIX? Why was the mafioso so interested in an operating system?
May 23rd, 2013 - 02:54 am - Link - Report abuse 03 Hepatia
May 23rd, 2013 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Urinate while you leave.
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/22/quarter-of-italians-edging-the-poverty-line-and-most-youngsters-survive-thanks-to-mon-and-dad#comment249389: Caught you out.
May 23rd, 2013 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 05 Hepatia
May 23rd, 2013 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How does my statement equate to you “Caught you out”?
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/22/quarter-of-italians-edging-the-poverty-line-and-most-youngsters-survive-thanks-to-mon-and-dad#comment249483: Your relutance to address the question indicates your deficiencies with respect to the subject matter.
May 24th, 2013 - 02:23 am - Link - Report abuse 07 Hepatia
May 24th, 2013 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No it does not: it 'indicates' your stupity in not understanding what I was politely telling you: “Urinate while you leave” is the same as PISS-OFF.
Have you got it now? I DON'T want to post to you.
Stupid female commie.
#8 “Stupid female commie”
May 25th, 2013 - 12:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is that worse than a stupid male commie then? Is female bad to you the way stupid and commie is???
@9 BSK
May 25th, 2013 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, I am not a chauvinist, this crazy woman IS a commie and they are ALL beyond the pale, spending taxpayers money on pet projects to ‘support the poor’ by thieving the majority of it for their own luxurious lifestyle.
#10 What makes you think Hepatia has any say over the tax system? Or a luxurious lifestyle for that mater!
May 25th, 2013 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11 BSK
May 26th, 2013 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0FFS, why do you not get the point of posts on here?
I am on about the communist governments spending taxpayers money to no good end. The very outcome that this stupid woman would love in every country on the globe (CLUE: she's a commie).
Got it now?
@ChristR
May 27th, 2013 - 04:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah! A good question from “Hepatia” why the “Ndrangheta” and “Cosa Nostra” were interested in Unix OS?
You talk about Euros and Euros started to become true in Italy around 1999/2000 when they started to exchange it for the “Liras”.
Linux already existed so do you thing that the Mafia would charge you less “Tangente” if you would use at that time a GNU software?
Ha ha ha
Ah! ChristR you never stop to surprise me with your tales.
All communications in Italy at that time were under the Monopoly of the State owned company called “SIP” and first supplier was Olivetti SPA a major EU supplier of computers for telcos in Europe. That acquired the monopoly later and turn into Telecom Italy SPA.
Olivetti use at that time a proprietary developed OS called SVR4.0MP.
I really doubt that the Italians were waiting for a US computer with Unix on it.
And why you were using switches at that time?
You didn’t find pertinax or fibber glass with cooper to go digital?
Ha ha
13 DanyBerger
May 27th, 2013 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0You really are the gift from The Dark Country that keeps on giving, you stupid, stupid person.
For ALL your bullshit, you still do not understand the term “internationally recognised photo-electronics plant” do you?
I am referring to SDH (synchronous digital hierarchy telecommunication systems that use fibre optics for the transmission conduit).
AND do you really think a mechanical swith could handle 9 million calls AT THE SAME TIME?
The term is generic OR we could use the actual technical term for these devices, which is a NODE. Still don’t understand do you?
And all the bullshit about the Italians and their OS: it’s totally irrelevant you cunt. And I do so love your “fibber glass with cooper” to which I take it you mean cohesive glass elements and copper?
There were 26 nodes on this system and five operational UNIX computers and one management UNIX computer which could oversee all the activity on the system. AND YOU THINK THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE BESPOKE, if only from the security aspect of it?
As I said, stupid, stupid cunt.
@ChrisR
May 27th, 2013 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“making telecommunications switches?
So you were connecting PCM Multiplexer boxes for a Synchronous Digital Hierarchy Network. Ah!
And what was your job there to serve the coffee?
1- Pertinax http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertinax_%28Werkstoff%29
2- PCB (printed circuit boards) or PWB (printed wiring board) can be made of Bakelite, fibber-glass (FR-4), PTFE, etc.
Have you ever seen one?
“five operational UNIX computers”
There are not Unix computers otherwise computers that run Unix, Nix, Win, et. OS.
@15 DannyBurger
May 28th, 2013 - 04:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still pursuing FIBBER glass, eh? You don't know what FIBRE GLASS IS DO YOU? It is most certainly not the fibre glass used in high quality fibre-optics for use in continental telecommunications.
A FIBBER is someone who tells lies: just like you do.
Now stop trying to second guess the project and piss off. Argie moron.
http://en.mercopress.com/2013/05/22/quarter-of-italians-edging-the-poverty-line-and-most-youngsters-survive-thanks-to-mon-and-dad#comment250846: Despite frothing uncontrollably at the mouth you still have not been able to answer the question.
May 29th, 2013 - 05:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh! poor Chris Rambo...
May 29th, 2013 - 07:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0The only thing he has made in his entire life was serving coffee while others were connecting some PCMM boxes with FG and he had to talk about it all the time.
The title of this article was “Quarter of Italians edging the poverty line and most youngsters survive thanks to Mon and Dad”
And you have to come with your tale repeated for 10 times about how you were able to connect some boxes and your “Unix computer”
Sorry mate but someone have to tell you that none is interesting in that.
Have you don’t noted that?
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